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sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, November 6, 2015Volume LXXX, Issue XI

Opinion

One student writes about his concern for the lack of SLUH students’ ecological awareness. Page 3.

SustainabilitySports

The Jr. Bills fell to Hazlewood Central last week, ending the Jr. Bills’ playoff run and season with an 8-3 record. Page 6.

Central conquers Footbills

Sports

After placing second at the Sec-tional meet, the XC team awaits a tough course in Jefferson City.Page 6.

XC State-bound

News

Salsich, ’07, and Winfrey, ’09, speak about their experiences with the fine arts. Page 3.

NHS Speaker Series

News

10 Jr. Bills qualify for the Metro 8 All-District jazz and concert bands after a day of auditions. Page 4.

SLUH Student Musicians Feature

Senior Laith Armouti debuts his original song with his jazz com-bo at the Mother-Son Luncheon. Page 4.

Armouti’s “Grimy Guitar”

INDEX

3 Commentary

Credits

Crossword

4 Feature

6-7 Sports

8 Calendar

Around the Hallways

Comic

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BY Keith ThomasSPORTS EDITOR

There’s an old cliché in all levels of sports that says “it’s hard to beat

a good team three times in a row.” Unfortunately for the St. Louis U. High soccer team, the adage proved true, as the Jr. Bills ended their sea-son with a 1-0 loss to De Smet in the sectional final.

The atmosphere on Oakland Avenue was electric on Tuesday, with posters hung up in the school

Ceremony celebrates new Jesuit house

advertising the game and a sea of white filling the student section at the most-attended game of the year, with parents and students alike encircling the pitch.

After the national anthem, the game kicked off between the two Je-suit rivals. For most of the first half, De Smet was controlling the ball in SLUH’s half of the field and creating chances by finding their striker from the back lines. De Smet had a kick-and-run style for most of the game,

clearing the ball from their back lines to either their wing midfielders or striker, effectively testing SLUH keep-er Ty Frederking.

Frederking and the SLUH de-fense had a scare with 14 minutes left in the first half, when De Smet had the ball near SLUH’s 18-yard box. After a lofty cross, the ball slipped through Frederking’s hands, but the Jr. Bill defense was near the goal line for the clearance. It was the closest any team had come to scoring on

Frederking, who had posted consec-utive playoff shutouts, over Ritenour and Chaminade.

A few minutes later, the Spartans were attacking on one of the flanks. After knocking the ball around the SLUH defense, De Smet got a shot off, missing the net by inches.

After the scare, SLUH looked to gain some momentum late in the half from senior Peter Simon, the team’s leading goal scorer this year.

The soccer team after its loss to De Smet Tuesday. photo | Nolen Doorack

Soccer held scoreless in Sectional loss to De SmetPush for new alternatives in cafeteria

Justice groups meeting to find areas of overlapBY Jack SchweizerREPORTER

The various social justice groups around SLUH are

trying to find ways to meet and discuss issues that over-lap.

At the start of the school year, English teacher David Callon (moderator of the Stu-dents for Life club) and the-ology teacher Dan Finucane (moderator of Pax Christi,) were discussing whether their clubs could have a joint meeting. This led Finucane to think about the idea more broadly, perhaps including a meeting with all the social justice clubs: Association for Cultural Enrichment at SLUH (A.C.E.S.,) Students and Teachers for Racial Stud-ies (S.T.A.R.S.,) Sustainability, Pax Christi, Students for Life, SLUH for Gender Equality, and On Going Conversations.

“We know that there’s a lot of overlap between our different clubs so we’re trying to think of ways where we can

create connections between the different groups” said Fi-nucane.

The moderators of the groups have met several times.

Callon believes that so-ciety tries to box these issues into political parties. “Our box is the gospel, and it can not be reduced to any politi-cal party, or any movement, or any politician, or agenda. It’s bigger than that.” said Cal-lon.

Lodholz believes that society must work together in order to solve these com-plicated social justice issues, much like these clubs com-ing together are trying to do. “How are we as a society cre-ating structures or accepting structures that either empow-er people and lift them up, or put roadblocks in their way.” said Lodholz

Referencing a study by Jason Purnell in which Afri-can Americans’ life expectan-

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BY John Michael Fitzgerald and Nolen DoorackCORE STAFF, NEWS EDITOR

Both Food Service Consul-tants (FSC) and a group

of faculty members have been looking to create new, healthy food alternatives and more sustainable materials in the cafeteria. While the group of teachers has been focusing on food sustainability and qual-ity, FSC has introduced more healthy food options and eco-friendly serving materials.

The group of teachers is an offshoot of the Campus Facilities and Sustainability committee from Imagining 18 and includes about a doz-en faculty members who have met a few times this year. Its goal is to make improvements on food procurement, pro-cessing, and education.

“Food was one of those issues that we have been wanting to address for a long time,” said food group mem-

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Fr. Jim Burshek and Jesuits cutting the ribbon to open the new house. Yesterday was the Feast of All Jesuit Saints and Blesseds.photo | Brendan Voigt

BY Ethan McIntyre, Jack SinayFEATURES EDITOR, CORE STAFF

After eight months of con-struction, a new eight-

bedroom Jesuit house was

completed this week. A Mass and a dedication ceremony were held yesterday to cel-ebrate its completion.

About 60 guests, mostly consisting of Jesuits and do-

nors as well as three Cannon-ball Club members, were in-vited to the house for a Mass and dedication ceremony yesterday. Rather than taking place in the house’s chapel,

the ceremony took place in the living room and kitchen area in order to fit all 60 people. After the dedication ceremony, President David

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“If nothing else, value the truth”

Prep News NEWS November 6, 20152

BY Leo K. HeinzEDITOR IN CHIEF

Longtime English and film teacher Mark Cummings

has been away from school since mid-October on an un-expected medical leave.

Cummings was last at school on Tuesday, Oct. 13, when he proctored an exam for one of his two sections of Alienated Hero.

Since then, English de-partment chair Steve Missey and fine arts chair Joan Bug-nitz have worked with princi-

pal John Moran to coordinate substitutes.

“When someone is on leave, our priorities become care for them and their medi-cal needs and family,” Moran said. “I know Mr. Missey and the department have been great about reaching out to the Cummings family.”

During Cummings’ leave, English teacher Chuck Hussung stepped forward to teach Cummings’ freshman Film Fundamentals class and Bugnitz showed films to his

BY Jimmy BrickerSTAFF

Two St. Louis artists, Neil Salsich, ’07 and Pete

Winfrey, ’09, visited St. Louis U. High during activity period on Tuesday as part the Na-tional Honor Society speaker series.

The speaker series is in-tended to expose SLUH stu-dents and faculty to the in-credible things SLUH alumni are doing.

NHS co-moderator Chuck Hussung has orga-nized the series.

“If we as a community are open to growth and if love of learning is part of our life as a school, then we ought to give interesting people a chance to be heard,” said Hussung.

The narrower inspiration for Salsich and Winfrey visit-ing was to prove that the term “starving artist” isn’t necessar-ily a reality in St. Louis. While Salsich and Winfrey agree with this, they do think that an artist in St. Louis needs to be scrappy.

Salsich grew up playing music. At SLUH, he played the Spring Fling, was a mem-ber of varsity chorus, and wrote for Gadfly. He went to Truman State University to get his English major, with an almost complete music minor (he earned 17 of 18 required credits).

At Truman, Salsich men-tioned he met John Hussung, a graduate and Chuck’s old-est son. They formed a band called Acoustics Anonymous. The band goes on tour dur-

ing the year, a process which Salsich likened to graduate school—all the learning and experience with long and ex-hausting hours.

Salsich clarified that he doesn’t make the majority of his living on tour, though. In-stead, he plays at bars and oth-er venues in St. Louis during the week, as a self-described living, breathing radio.

Winfrey is an actor here in St. Louis. While at SLUH,

he talked about being in-volved in chorus and theatre. He attended Washington Uni-versity in St. Louis for college, where he has stayed. Acting, like playing music, isn’t always an easy way to make a living. Winfrey talked about how he auditioned for Shakespeare in the Park his first summer and often laughs to himself about how poorly he did. He struggled to figure out how to audition at first but eventually

succeeded. He has worked on the

Shakespeare in the Park play for three years and is working on two shows currently. He performed in Alfred Hitch-cock’s The 39 Steps, a spoof spy thriller, this Wednesday at Slightly Askew Theatre. In December, another show he is working on, Bad Jews, is be-ing put on by the New Jewish Theatre.

NHS Speaker Series continues with Salsich ’07 and Winfrey ’09

BY Andrew Pluff and Galen Bacharier REPORTERS

This year’s Open House will bring changes in the

form of experts along the tour explaining topics such as ro-botics, science, theater, and fine arts. STUCO represen-tatives will also be playing a larger part in welcoming pos-sible future Jr. Bills.

“Open House is some-thing that most schools have,” said Assistant Director of Ad-missions Adam Cruz. “We have to change it up to keep us set apart.”

Strongly emphasized this year, as it is every year, are tour guides not making up facts under any circumstanc-es. To avoid this temptation, this year’s Open House adds experts, both students and faculty, to cover such topics as science, fine arts, robotics, and theater. These depart-ments were chosen based on feedback from tours because tour guides seemed to know the least about them.

“There will be experts in these different places so the guys won’t have to try to answer questions they’re not sure on,” said Cruz.

“The thought with these areas, and in the future we may rotate them, was that now as a tour guide, they can be with a family, but when they get to these places, they can talk to someone else who is trained in these areas,” said Director of Admissions Anja Schmelter. “It’s less pressure on the tour guide to have to know all of that.”

STUCO’s presence of years past as simply a table

among the rest of club tables was also something that could be improved upon. The addi-tion of STUCO representa-tives in the theater lobby will also serve as an additional source of information for families who had unanswered questions from their tours.

Schmelter stresses that although Open House is still a vital event in the admissions process, the introduction of other events such as Inside SLUH tours and High School Nights give it a bit of a differ-ent feel.

“We advertise Open House as an opportunity early on in the exploration process of high schools to get a feel for a school,” said Schmelter. “The reality is, a record number of people came to SLUH Night. All of these events are kind of complementary, and we have quite a few more kids this year signed up for the Inside SLUH visits, so does that mean that they’re not going to come to Open House? It’s a wild card, now that we have all of these complementing events.”

Despite this, Schmelter stresses that Open House is still as important as ever for its widespread appeal and ver-satility among possible future Jr. Bills of all ages.

“A lot of the eighth grad-ers that end up coming to Open House, they’re now excited, they’ve applied, so now they want to go meet the coaches, and talk to the students in the clubs,” said Schmelter. “But it’s a different reason why the sixth grader would come. For them, it may be the first time their parents drag them to a high school.”

Open House to present expert voices Sunday

Teachers work together to fill in for Cummings

Film Genres class while ar-rangements for a longer term sub were made.

Missey—who is familiar with some of the class texts— and English teacher Adam Cruz have filled in for his sec-tions of Alienated Hero.

Will Linhares, ’10, took over the two film classes on Wednesday. The son of Assis-tant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares, Will studied history and political science at Miz-zou, graduating in the spring of 2014. Linhares has had an

interest in film since taking two of Cummings’ classes and is returning to Mizzou in Jan-uary for a graduate program in documentary filmmaking.

Though Cummings’ classes were well mapped thanks to SLUH’s curriculum mapping two years ago, Lin-hares admits he might have to veer off the script from time to time.

“I’m trying to respect the template that Mr. Cummings left behind as much as pos-sible, both because it would

photo | Max ProsperiWill Linhares preparing a class in the English office Thursday, his second day teaching.

photo | Brendan Voigt

Winfrey in the Schulte Theater Tuesday.

be the most direct way for me to be an effective teacher and because I know he’s honed his craft over the years and that it’s an efficient and effec-tive method,” he said. “When I was taking his class it was the first time that I remem-ber thinking about film and watching movies in different ways, so I’d like to respect the way that he teaches as much as possible. That being said, I’m reaching from bits and pieces and it has been a little difficult—I think I’m going to

have to improvise a bit.” Though Cummings is

out indefinitely, plans are in place to have his classes cov-ered to the end of the semes-ter if needed.

“If we see Mr. Cum-mings before that, that would be great,” Missey said. “If he’s ready to come back, we’re ready to step aside at any sec-ond.”

Prep NewsOPINIONNovember 6, 2015 3

BY Connor FitzGeraldNEWS EDITOR

I see it everyday: someone sits in the Commons during

lunch and throws a balled-up lunch bag, most likely full of

uneaten food, into the trash cans.

Maybe the average SLUH student doesn’t know the big picture effect of throwing away uneaten food and plastic bottles; maybe they don’t think about those who go without

food or greenhouse gases. But even if they don’t, students are accountable to this issue because we are called to be stewards of creation. Earth is a gift given to humans, and it needs to be treated as such. Instead of writing off people

A call to careful stewardshipthat take the time to sort their waste into the correct bins as hippies or tree huggers, I urge students to become those peo-ple that care about where their waste is going.

This necessary aware-ness is especially important for Saint Louisans. There is currently an underground fire in the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton—less than 20 miles from our school—which has been going on for the past five years. Buried in the landfill is radioactive material that dates back to World War II. If the fire reaches the radioactive material that is buried in the landfill, it would be released into the air and water and would eventually reach the Missouri River, one of Saint Louis’s main sources of drink-ing water.

On a global scale, unre-cycled plastic has contributed to the growth of five massive collections of plastic floating

Commentary

in both the Pacific and Atlan-tic oceans. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, one of these collections, is off the Western coast of the U.S. and is esti-mated to be roughly twice the size of Texas, and it’s growing at an alarming rate.

Separating your waste after lunch is an easy thing to do; it doesn’t take much more than 30 seconds to place your waste in the correct bin. The laziness of some who put waste items that are not com-postable in the compost bins is costing the school money. The laziness of others who do not even try to separate their waste is ridding the Earth of its future resources.

If SLUH students were to commit themselves to placing their waste in the correct bins and to avoid using new plastic bags and bottles every day, the carbon footprint of the school would fall.

Mr. Anderson (the

AP Environmental Science teacher) has a poster in his classroom that says, “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can.” Students should not be dis-couraged because of the size of the issue; together, we can tackle it, but only if everyone buys into the goal of a sustain-able SLUH.

Sustainability is worth the commitment; I know that I don’t want myself or any of my descendants to live in a world filled with trash, which is where we’re headed as a so-ciety if things do not change.

So please work to sepa-rate your waste and place it correctly. A sustainable, pre-served, clean Earth is worth much more than impressing your friends with throwing your lunch bag into the trash from distance or another 30 seconds of jokes with your buddies.

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Justice clubs look to work together more

ACROSS (Numbers located in top left)1 Explosive weapon.2 “Set ____ to the rain.”3 Jaden Smith prefers Kung Fu to ______.4 Another term for spell-bound.5 The capital of this African country is Accra.6 “_ _ Sports, it’s in the game!”7 A military alliance created in 1949.8 A horrible fear.9 _ _ I is an outdoor adven-ture store.10 It’s as easy as 1,2,3.11 Your favorite subject in grade school.12 Jeweled head wear for a princess. 13 ____berries are red.14 The relation of data in a lab to a continuous variable.15 A fruit also known as a Chinese Gooseberry16 A term used for your ball-park hotdog.17 ‘What is it good for? Abso-lutely nothing!”18 The Final ____19 It’s a limo on steroids.20 A bewildering maze.

21 Bad place to live when the river rises.22 Military gesture. 23 Revelation speaks of the ___ times.24 Another term for a partner in crime.25 Every SLUH club’s favorite thing to make. 26 Vegetable closely related to the Irish famine.27 Another term for a build-ing resident.28 Teen’s cash dispenser.29 Dynamite.30 Jim Carrey is ___ man.31 ___ Jordan.32 Number one ___.33 I swear it wasn’t on pur-pose.34 Andy Griffith, all day every day.35 The Spanish word for East.36 “Forget about it!” is equiva-lent to saying __.37 Ted Turner’s cable network.38 Another term for statues.39 Roadside assistance com-pany.40 America’s Got ______.41 Dorothy’s traveling com-panion.

DOWN (Numbers located in top right)1 Foot powered transporta-tion.2 Rhymes with nothing.3 “The ________ of Venice” by Shakespeare.4 When things mentally click, you reach an ___ moment.5 Sun bather’s objective.6 President Obama used to be a _______.7 A blood sucking parasite.8 College _____.9 “Livin’ The Dream”.10 _ _ dipus11 _ _ _-12 conference.12 There’s three of these on England’s crest.13 Don’t sit on this part of the furniture.14 Paul’s last name.15 Bird’s eye view.16 The act of betraying one’s country.17 Repeated decorative de-signs.18 “The Tempter”19 _ _ _ Bit.20 Holiday celebrated with four candles.21 Mandela22 ___ Turner’s rebellion.

23 Saran ____.24 LA neighborhood where Will’s Smith Auntie sent him.25 Colonel Sander’s fast food chain.26 “Straight Outta Compton: The Story of _ _ _.”27 Person who physically pre-pares athletes.28 Shoulder-fired weapon.29 “‘Cause I am the champion and you’re gonna hear me _____!”30 Another term for annually.31 This should be done to your tires about every 6,000 miles.32 Peter used _ _ _ _ to catch fish.33 Another term for ‘going on’.34 Back in the day when you didn’t visit the doctor, he _______ you.36 Used to sink battleships.37 _ & _.38 The Latin word for ‘pull’.39 Time, Talent, and Treasure.40 _ _chdiocese.41 _ _raham.42 _ _hone 6 plus.

puzzle | Jack Casey

ARTWORK| WILL KRAMER

Prep NewsVolume 80, Issue 11 Credits

Editor in ChiefLeo Heinz

News EditorsNolen DoorackConnor FitzGerald

Sports EditorsTim NileKeith Thomas

Features EditorsSam HeagneyEthan McIntyre

Core Staff Charlie MuethJack SinaySam ChechikNick MessinaJohn Michael FitzgeraldJoseph ReznikovPatrick Enderle

StaffBilly BalossiJimmy Bricker

Liam ConnollyCade DernlanJack Casey

Staff ArtistsJoe FentressIan Mulvihill

Staff PhotographerBrendan Voigt

ReportersAndrew ModderAndrew PluffAidan MooreGalen Bacharier

Contributing ArtistsWill KramerPaul AnthonyLancer Li

Contributing PhotgrapherMax Prosperi

ModeratorMr. Steve Missey

cy is eighteen less years than white people in a zip code ad-jacent to it, Kovarik said “Is-sues of racism can be synony-mous with issues of life.” Kovarik also believes that the movement “Black Lives Matter” is a pro-life issue be-cause society does not value the lives of black people as much as it should.

A couple of student members from each of these clubs met two weeks ago, and talked about what they were

working on in each club. Try-ing to find issues that overlap, they discussed future meet-ings too.

Lodholz hopes that the students of these clubs will grow in their faith from this experience.

“Issues that are impor-tant to both their faith, but also as they see their faith being played out in the real world,” said Lodholz.

These clubs are planning to have more meetings togeth-er throughout the school year.

November 6, 2015Prep News4 FEATURE

Armouti’s voiceless music comes from “teen angst”

“My thought process on

everything was I’m not gonna

put out anything mediocre.”

BY Nick MessinaCORE STAFF

Ten Jr. Bill musicians qualified for 14 posi-

tions in the St. Louis Metro 8 All-District jazz and concert bands on Tuesday, Nov. 3. The auditions, held at Chris-tian Brothers College High School, pitted student-musi-cians from private and public high schools in the St. Louis area against each other in a day-long process.

“I don’t know if SLUH has ever had this many stu-dents in the jazz and concert bands before,” said band di-rector Jeff Pottinger. “For ten kids to get 14 spots, it’s super cool. I’m very proud of them and happy for them, too.”

The auditions were blind, meaning the judge who was present in each audition room was turned around to prevent any biases from affecting the overall scores the students were given. These scores de-termined what chair the stu-

dents received in the bands—the higher the seat number, the better the audition, with 1st chair being the superlative achievement.

While the auditions for concert and jazz were dif-ferent, everyone who was in concert band applied for jazz band as well.

“Concert band has to prepare probably around 20 minutes of music, and jazz probably closer to five min-utes. However, in the jazz audition, the students have to improvise and do it over “Sat-in Doll” (a jazz standard)—it’s not blues changes, so they re-ally have to know what they are doing,” said Pottinger.

Music prepared for most concert band instruments is a daunting list—18 scales in to-tal, five to seven musical exer-cises, and a full page of music given to them at the time of the audition.

For the jazz band, the students auditioning had to

Jazz and concert Bills alike qualify for districtsprepare a swing etude and a Latin etude, in addition to the improvisation over “Satin Doll.” Jazz band also had to sight-read approximately 20 bars of a melody or chords, also given to them at the time of the audition.

“In the audition rooms, there is no talking allowed. A judge will ask you to play your music and you do it,” said se-nior Matthew Fink, 1st chair snare, 1st alternate timpani. “Sometimes there are cuts, meaning the judge cuts us off, so we don’t play everything we’ve prepared. That’s always a unique thing—coming in, there’s always some element of surprise.”

With over 30 schools participating in the Metro 8 District, the auditions can of-ten be a nerve-racking experi-ence. Unfortunately, students will occasionally mess up an audition performance or skip the audition altogether based on their impression of how

competitive the audition can be.

“It’s a lot of extra work and it takes a lot of guts to do this. After (the audition), the goal is that you play bet-ter than you did one or two months ago and that’s what was fun for me as a teacher. I’ve got kids who didn’t make it that I’m more proud of than the kids who made it,” said Pottinger.

“Each year, I feel more calm about it, because I’m used to it,” said Fink. “There aren’t very many surprises when it comes to the audi-tion process, but I know some people were nervous, espe-cially the young guys. With more experience, it certainly becomes easier.”

The two bands will re-hearse over the coming weeks, and will perform from 1-4 p.m., on Nov. 22, at Chami-nade’s Skip Viragh Center of Performing Arts.

artwork | Will Kramer

BY Sam HeagneyFEATURES EDITOR

Though you’ve probably heard buzz about a cou-

ple of musicians, through al-bums on iTunes or YouTube hits, in the St. Louis U. High community, you probably haven’t heard of senior Laith Armouti. Even if you were at the mother-son luncheon two weeks ago, you most likely didn’t pay attention to the song Armouti wrote himself and performed with his jazz combo.

The third and final song the combo performed, which Armouti calls “Grimy Guitar,” was written and originally recorded by Armouti him-self. Armouti has the original version online, but since he had six other musicians with him, he added more layers and instruments and instead of playing the guitar he got to play the keyboard with a gui-tar distortion.

“It was way better than I thought it would be. I liked how we played it live better

than how we made it previ-ously,” said Armouti.

Armouti’s love for play-ing music started when he was seven and his uncle, a drum player, visited town. Armouti asked his parents for a drum set and his uncle gave him lessons. It didn’t take long for Armouti to bash the drums to death, though, and end his music career momen-tarily.

Four years later, after

regaining his parents’ trust, Armouti was given a guitar, but not lessons. So he went to YouTube. After two years of guitar videos, he played for his parents, who were so impressed that they got him lessons.

The song the combo performed was clearly a jazz song, but if you find yourself listening to the original song, “Track One,” on Armouti’s SoundCloud you’ll find a much heavier guitar riff ac-companied with a simple drum pattern. This simpler version has more elements of rock than the jazzy perfor-mance his combo played.

When asked what genre his music was, Armouti re-fused to categorize it.

“I’ll let you choose what it is,” said Armouti. “I don’t like to classify what I make into genres because then people will expect me to only make that music.”

If you listen to his second most recent song, titled “Horn Joints,” you’ll find a simi-

lar jazz feeling mixed with a hip-hop vibe. Armouti uses a chopped up and slowed down Isaac Hayes horn tune for the main sound and a simple drum beat he made to go with it. To make a song like this, Amrouti will “keep trial-and-erroring” the beat by adding sound and then listening to it until he gets one he wants to keep. This is when the dif-ferentiation of the beat into parts like the chorus or bridge

occurs. Since Armouti doesn’t know how to mix—adding filters and changing volumes to make it sound more profes-sional—the production ends here.

“It was super easy to

make. I got a sample from (senior Alix Warner) that was an old Isaac Hayes song and thought, ‘this is kind of groovy and funky,’” said Ar-mouti.

After his training in gui-tar, Armouti tried to move on to the vocal aspect.

“I guess teen angst calls you to, if you play music, try to write music at some point,” said Armouti, “I had always liked hip hop and I had never connected the two.”

Another song on his SoundCloud catalogue, “Go-ing Under,” has one aspect that can’t be found on any of the other songs: words. These aren’t vocals from Armouti, but an occasional sample. The one thing all of the songs do have in common is the lack of Armouti’s voice. Adding vocals is still a concept Ar-mouti is becoming comfort-able with.

“I was not a good vocalist or rapper for a very long time and I was trying to familiar-ize myself with making beats so I focused on that a lot. My rapping can get kinda cheesy,” said Armouti. “I usually have ideas for the vocal aspects of those songs.”

Though he was in cho-rus, Armouti realized that singing wasn’t his strong suit. So, he moved on to the more technical and technologi-cal aspects of music making. Sophomore year, Armouti’s close friend, Warner, lent him a Music Production Console

(MPC) that he could use to make beats. Then he added a keyboard to his arsenal. That’s when Armouti started to ac-tually make music instead of just playing it. Though it wasn’t a very impressive col-lection, Armouti’s equipment was all he needed to start.

“Using the minimal soft-ware I learned to make stuff with very little or less than you think you need to have which really opened my mind to the different options you can do,” said Armouti.

After he got the MPC, Armouti taught himself how to play the piano. In his newest SoundCloud release, “X+Y=Z,” Armouti com-bines a gentle piano sound with constant, rattling drum sounds. He has recorded vo-cals for it, unlike most of his songs, but since he doesn’t know how to engineer his voice to sound more profes-sional he hasn’t released them.

“If I like it enough to dance to it then I would usu-ally write something after-wards. That could be 30 min-utes or six hours of listening to the same thing over and over again,” said Armouti.

Those six hours of listen-ing happen in Armouti’s base-ment studio, better described as a plain room with a laptop, a guitar, and a piano.

“If I had it organized how I want and had all the equip-ment it would be a great stu-dio,” said Armouti.

He usually makes music exclusively on weekends be-cause once he starts a song it’s difficult not to finish it.

“Sometimes I start recording and I end up forget-ting I have homework and I don’t do it, so I had to stop,” said Armouti.

Though he’s made doz-ens of songs, only five can be found online. After recording the music, Armouti mostly stores it away for his ears only. He is very concerned about putting out music that he isn’t totally satisfied with, Armouti’s mom is concerned that if he puts his music out in

the open it may get stolen. Ar-mouti didn’t put anything out in public until recently.

“My thought process on everything was, ‘I’m not gonna put out anything me-diocre,’” said Armouti. “I was staying true to that for a really long time but people kept ask-ing me ‘Where’s evidence of your stuff?’ and I got annoyed with it, so I got a Sound-Cloud.”

The name of Armouti’s SoundCloud simply reads “Laith Armouti.” Though he’s considered a stage name, Armouti has stuck with his birth name, which translates from Arabic into “lion.” He’s considered other names, like Tosen, but none have stuck yet.

Armouti sees the next step in his career not as choosing a name, but as re-leasing a similarly short but more official project com-pared to the small collection on his SoundCloud. He has a hazy timetable for that, but he has a clearer one for his college years because in his household not going to col-lege isn’t an option. So, Ar-

mouti is looking for the best place to learn more about mu-sic, which will likely land him near Nashville or California.

“I don’t mean to be a bragger but my name is pretty cool,” said Armouti.

Most of Armouti’s work is in his closed off basement, so his performance at the moth-er-son luncheon was a new experience. Band director Jeff Pottinger asked Armouti to perform one of his songs live with his seven-student com-bo. The group practiced every Tuesday and Thursday. Before playing Armouti’s song, the combo performed a rendi-tion of Roy Hargrove’s “Stras-bourg St. Denis,” a popular jazz riff. Over the course of the luncheon, four electrical cords and two amps broke, so Armouti’s group added some time to the performance by improvising a song in B flat blues.

“I’ve never performed something that I made in front of somebody and it helped me get used to the idea of it. I see that happening in the future more often even though it’s been something that’s scared me,” said Armouti.

artwork | Lancer Li

Freshmen

Justin Koesterer, 4th chair

trumpet concert band

Justin Koesterer, 1st alter-

nate trumpet Jazz band

(6th chair)

Sophomores

Leonard Kim, 1st alternate

clarinet, concert band

Emanuel Parker, 1st alter-

nate alto saax concert band

(5th chair)

Sam Pottinger, 2nd alter-

nate alto sax concert band

(6th chair)

Sam Pottinger, 2nd chair

alto sax jazz band

Thomas Curdt, 2nd chair

trombone jazz band

Thomas Curdt, 4th chair

trombone concert band

Joe Hartung, 3rd chair

trombone jazz band

Juniors

Edward Gartner, 4th chair

clarinet concert band

Jacob Elieff, 9th chair

trumpet concert band

John Storgion, 3rd chair

alto sax concert band

Seniors

Matthew Fink, 1st chair

snare drum concert band

Matthew Fink, 1st alternate

timpani concert band (2nd

chair)

District Band Qualifiers

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ber and social studies teacher Anne Marie Lodholz.

With a push for green, healthy food alternatives from members of the faculty group and the community, FSC has adapted accordingly.

This year, FSC has com-mitted to using only com-postable or recyclable materi-als to serve food. All cartons, containers, and cups can go into either recycle or compost bins; all utensils are reusable silverware. Last year, the only

non-recyclable serving ma-terials were the cheeseburger wrapper and condiment con-tainers. FSC has now made all serving materials sustainable.

They have begun to serve fair-trade bananas to faculty. FSC is also looking into pos-sibly buying meat from a local butcher shop.

Along with these chang-es, FSC has introduced new healthy food options. This year, FSC has served tilapia and salmon. The salad bar has expanded to its largest

size and now includes preser-vative-free dressings such as home-style buttermilk ranch, asiago cheese, blue cheese, and a few others.

Although change has been slow, it has been going well, noted head food con-sultant Kathy Hyla. She also stated that students have re-sponded positively to the new, healthy options.

In addition to the sus-tainability strides made by FSC, the teacher food group is trying to find ways to address

Newly completed Jesuit house celebrated with a dedication ceremony

Faculty group meets about current cafe issues, discusses future improvementsissues they see in the cafeteria. In order to make food more sustainable, one of the group’s ideas is to create a cooked-from-scratch food program that uses fresh fruits, veg-etables, and proteins to create healthy and exciting foods for the whole community, noted Lodholz.  

The teacher food group would also like to add a unique educational compo-nent by expanding students’ understanding of food and diet, and perhaps even being

involved in its preparation. “We want to use this to

educate the community from both a sustainable and justice standpoint on where the food comes from and how we pro-cess it. From a health stand-point, what the food is doing for us and how it serves (its) clients,” said Lodholz.

The group is continuing to participate in conversations with FSC and the administra-tion.

“(FSC) is reviewing their practices and approach, and

the small group here is trying to participate in that review process … we are trying to serve that process,” said food group member and Assistant Principal for Mission Jim Lin-hares. “We are trying to work with our partners and are try-ing to see where we can go to-gether.”

“This (process) isn’t something that can hap-pen instantaneously,” said Lodholz. “You can’t just wave a magic wand and make this happen.”

Laughlin and Director of Fa-cilities Joe Rankin led tours through the house.

Laughlin thanked nearly everyone one in attendance by name, especially the many volunteers, (“earning the normal Jesuit rate,” he joked) whose generosity of time and talent helped make the house come together so quickly and smoothly.

Using a picture from Je-suit Hall, the current home of many local Jesuits, dated 1921, Laughlin spoke about the im-pact that the Jesuits have had on the metropolitan commu-nity.

“By the time the picture was taken, the Society of Jesus had been in St. Louis for over a hundred years,” Laughlin said. “They impacted thou-sands, tens of thousands, hun-dreds of thousands of people, shaping this region.”

The house will replace the former Jesuit residence on Lawn Avenue and will house eight local Jesuits, including Superior of the SLUH Jesuit house community Jim Bur-shek, S.J., who is currently teaching at De Smet.

The new house, which is located in the southwestern corner of campus behind the Field House, is an upgrade from the one on Lawn Avenue. It is wheelchair accessible with wheelchair accessible showers and elevators, and features an improved chapel in addition to a rain garden and a carport.

Additionally, the house is more sustainable than the one on Lawn. With a more energy-efficient HVAC vacuum sys-tem, as well as LED lighting, it cuts unnecessary energy usage in every detail from the insulation to the windows. It also has a thermostat in each of the Jesuits’ rooms so they can adjust the temperature as they wish, which will allow for the Jesuits to have a more comfortable living experience as well as further cut down unnecessary energy usage.

A rain garden, which funnels rainwater into a ditch where plants grow, is another sustainability aspect of the house. It was mandated by the Metropolitan Sewer District to help prevent flash flood-ing, which is frequent in areas

around SLUH like Chelten-ham, King’s Oak, and Dog-town, as well as in the Grove.

Multiple features of the house make it uniquely Je-suit. The house floor plan in-cludes a chapel complete with a tabernacle that can be used for daily Masses within the eight-person Jesuit commu-nity housed there. The house also features a stained glass window of the Jesuit insignia, which was designed by Art Glass Unlimited, the same company that designed the stained glass window in the Field House.

Also included is a parlor, a smaller room that can be used for informal meetings as well as the sacrament of Rec-onciliation with anyone who might be visiting the house, namely SLUH students.

“It’s a place where peo-ple can come,” said Burshek. “There’s a thing called clois-ter—a place reserved for just Jesuits. Well, the first floor is open to anyone.”

Although the house is at the end of Wise Avenue, there will be a fence with three gates

around it. One of the gates will be in the back, at the entrance to the carport; one will be on Wise Avenue; and a final one will be on the sidewalk alongside Wise. SLUH held meetings with members of the neighborhood to talk about the house and the gate, and proceeded after a consensus was reached.

This is not the only change the neighborhood has had recently. Last year, at

the corner of Wise and King-shighway, the Grove Car Wash was built. Additionally, within the last few years, a Subway as well as a Pridestaff office were built in the adjacent neigh-borhood, a short walk from the site.

Although there are no official plans for the house on Lawn Avenue, SLUH has many possible uses for the house. With the Nanjing exchange student program growing in popularity over recent years, the house could offer living space for exchange students. The Alum Service Corps could also move into the house. SLUH now owns

two houses on Wise Avenue and three more on Lawn Av-enue.

SLUH has owned the land where the house was built for years, but had not done anything with it until last year, when a community garden was built. However, when the need for a new Jesuit house was recognized, plans were drawn up to replace the space. A new community gar-den is in the works to be built

alongside the Jesuit house. The company BSI Con-

struction, led by on-site man-ager John Gunther, built the house after starting construc-tion last March. Gunther and his team used another SLUH-owned house on Wise Avenue

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Before and after pictures of the site where the new Jesuit house was built. During the first stages of construction, a long stretch of rain filled the ditch with standing water, posing early chal-lenges to the construction team.

as a project site headquarters. During construction, a link to a live video feed of the house being built was posted on SLUH’s website so onlookers could check in to see how far along the house was.

The project was funded entirely by benefactors, many of whom attended the dedica-tion ceremony. That includes the construction, permits, and money spent to purchase the lot across the street, which was paved over to connect the alley behind the school and Field House to Wise.

“(John) keeps pointing out that it is the people that build up the house of God,” said Burshek, quoting John’s letter to the Ephesians. “And I look around at all of (the benefactors) and I realize that the house we really rely on is all of you. You are the ones who build us up, who build up this house. You are the ones who always keep supporting us do whatever it is we do for God’s greater glory.”

Although it will be an important part of the school campus, the house will of-fer new opportunities for the Jesuits to serve the entire St. Louis community, not just SLUH, for years to come.

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A relic of St. John Brebeuf, a Jesuit who led Canadian missions in the 15th century before he was martyred. The relic was on the altar for the Mass and will hang in the chapel permanently.

The rain garden, one of the house’s more sustainable features, with Wise Avenue in the background as well as the site for the revamped community garden to the right. It was mandated by the Metropolitan Sewer District to reduce flash flooding.

photo | Jack Sinay

photo | Brendan Voigt

The chapel of the house, which features a San Domiano crucifix.Attendees of the dedication got to take a replica of the crucifix home as a gift from the Jesuit community.

photo | Brendan Voigt

photos | Jack Sinay

The window above the entrance of the house. It resembles a window in the Field House, which is right across the street.

photo | courtesy of Joe Rankin photo | Jack Sinay

BY Chris KreienkampREPORTER

Hazelwood Central beat SLUH 41-13 in the sec-

ond round of district football playoffs Saturday, ending the Jr. Bills’ football season for the second time in two years.

A slight drizzle meant wet field conditions on the uneven plane of real grass at Hazelwood Central. Both teams were subject to the slippery ground, losing their footing on several plays to re-sult in small gains or losses at the line of scrimmage.

After the SLUH de-fense shut down the Hazel-wood Central offense on its first drive, the SLUH offense opened scoring with a 41-yard pass from junior quar-terback Mitch Batschelett to senior wide receiver David Jackson in the first quarter. The SLUH offense would not score again until late in the third quarter on a one-yard run by Batschelett.

Between the two SLUH touchdowns, Hazelwood Central reached the end zone three times.

The SLUH defense made the most of the muddy con-ditions, forcing three Hawks turnovers.

Senior Daniel Jackson re-corded an interception while sophomore lineman Kameron Bowdry recovered a fumble. The most notable defensive player, however, was senior captain Chris Stahl, who fin-ished with nine tackles, three assists, and a fumble recovery.

The Jr. Bills had a good

start to the game, but it did not last. Batschelett complet-ed all of his first nine passes, but only completed five of the next 17 attempts. He threw for one touchdown and two interceptions but also earned a touchdown on the one-yard run.

SLUH was down just 21-13 going into the fourth quar-ter, but the offense turned the ball over three times, on two fumbles and an interception, and could not generate any substantial yardage.

The defense, in turn, al-lowed 20 points, the third worst defensive quarter of the

season. SLUH only allowed more points in a quarter to CBC, allowing 21 in the first and second quarters of that game.

“The first three quarters we played pretty good ball,” said head coach Gary Korn-feld. “The fourth quarter was probably the worst quarter we’ve played all year. As I told the kids yesterday, we were a lot better team than what we showed in that fourth quarter, and it seemed that whatever could go wrong did go wrong in that fourth quarter.”

The team ended its sea-son with a record of 8-3. The

eight wins are the most in any football season since the 2011 team that reached the semi-finals. The three losses came from CBC, Chaminade, and Hazelwood Central—all very talented teams that are still alive in the playoffs.

“I’m very happy with where we are,” said Kornfeld. “I would’ve liked to see an-other rematch with CBC, but obviously Hazelwood Central had a little bit different plans. For us to go in and be victori-ous and finish 8-3, that’s a tes-tament to our kids and what they were able to accomplish.”

Although the season

ended on a bitter note, the season as a whole was a great success for the SLUH football program.

“I first felt let down. I gave every ounce of effort on every play,” said Stahl on the season. “Then I realized I wasn’t the only one who gave it all. My whole team did and I felt proud ... but like David Diehl said when he talked to us after practice Friday, he said, ‘have no regrets.’ I don’t have any regrets. I did what I could do and accept that it wasn’t enough to win. I loved to play with such an outstand-ing group of guys.”

Hazlewood Central ends Bills’ season, team finishes 8-3

Jr. Bills on defense against Hazlewood Central. Bills lost 41-13.photo | Dominik Skroska

BY Patrick SchulerREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High swim team just seems to have a

knack for winning, especially in the Metro Catholic Con-ference. The Jr. Billikens won the MCCs last Friday at Forest Park, their fifth consecutive victory.

Going into the meet, SLUH knew that Chaminade would be their biggest compe-tition, having three very good swimmers to lead their team. And things looked bad early, when senior Mark Franz was disqualified from the 100-yard backstroke in prelims. Franz had been seeded to win the event, which would have meant a big 20 points, but false-started.

Despite the disqualifi-cation, the Jr. Bills were able to push through and win the meet thanks to key swims from everyone, as all but one swimmer made it back to fi-nals.

The team accomplished another one of its goals—win-ning the MCCs.

After Franz’s disquali-fication, sophomore Joe Jell-inek was seeded second in the breaststroke. In the finals, he swam his best time of the year, placing second. Jellinek also placed sixth in the 200 individual medley.

“I was a little nervous when Mark got disqualified,” Jellinek said. “But when I placed second I was really happy. It was a good race.”

Another standout was senior Thomas O’Brien. Af-ter starting off the year on the dive team, O’Brien has be-come one of the team’s most dominant sprinters. Despite missing state by a hundredth of a second in his 50 freestyle, he dropped significant time in his 100 freestyle, placing fourth overall and helping the 400 free relay take second.

“Our 400 free relay was really good,” O’Brien said. “(Sophomore Dale) Barclay was tired, but it was still a good time.”

“It was a culmination of a successful season,” head coach Lindsay Ehret said. “We finished on a great note and finished another one of our goals. We had a few people better their state times and it was another testament to our depth. I enjoyed the cold wa-ter bath afterwards.”

Now the Jr. Bills have one meet left, the State Champi-onship. It is today (prelims) and tomorrow (finals) at St. Peters Rec Plex.

“This is going to be a tough meet, but I think we could do really well,” O’Brien said.

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Swimming capsizes rest of MCC, captures title

XC captures second at SectionalsBY Joseph ReznikovCORE STAFF

After a strong race on a rainy and sloppy day

at Sectionals last Saturday, the St. Louis U. High varsity cross country team is excited to compete in its 22nd con-secutive State Championship tomorrow.

SLUH placed second in the sectional meet in War-rington behind a very strong Rock Bridge team, losing 40-57.

Though they didn’t fin-ish first, coach Joe Porter is especially proud of the way his guys were able to rebound from their frustrating race at Districts.

“We ran much better than we did (at Districts) last week,” said Porter. “There’s still room to improve, but the guys are running really well

right now.”SLUH’s race was topped

off with an 18-point victory over Webster Groves, the only team who beat SLUH in the district meet last week.

“Our first (runner) was faster than their first (run-ner); our second was faster than their second, and so on. That’s what we want, and that didn’t happen last week,” said Porter. “We also made sure our next four runners were closer to (senior) Dustan (Da-vidson) and we brought that time down to 48 seconds.”

Junior Joe Laughlin was one of the leaders for SLUH in the meet, coming in sec-ond, just nine seconds behind SLUH’s first place finisher, Da-vidson, who finished fourth overall. Junior Joe Laughlin ran the 5K in 16:51.25, good for sixth overall.

“I tried to stick with

some guys from Rock Bridge and stay with them when they made moves, and it worked out well,” said Laughlin.

Freshman Patrick Het-lage also had a huge race for SLUH, coming in fifth on the team and 27th overall with a time of 17:30.54—a personal record by ten seconds.

“I was really pushed by my teammates; they were su-per supportive,” said Hetlage. “They definitely helped me run as well as I did.”

Hetlage’s teammates were especially impressed by the way he stayed under con-trol under the pressure of the sectional atmosphere.

“He seemed comfortable in the high pressure setting,” said Laughlin. “To have a ten-second PR at a really tough race with mud everywhere and bad conditions is very photo | Andrew Pluff

Billy Ballossi (left) and Joe Butler (right) at Sectionals.continued on page 7

—CYC Soccer—Today, two SLUH CYC teams will face off in a heated battle on SLUH’s turf. The undefeated Athletico Big Fella vs. PBR Streetgang. 4 p.m.

November 6, 2015Volume LXXX, Issue XI

Prep NewsSPORTSNovember 6, 2015 7

Hockey skates out of the gate, withers Westminster 9-3

With about two minutes in the half, and SLUH anxious for a late first half goal, Simon had the ball on the flank after a pass from the Jr. Bill back-line, and took on the De Smet defenseman with speed. Si-mon took a laser of a shot on net, but the De Smet goalie, Connor Range, came up with a save.

At the end of the first half, the score was knotted at zero.

“We had a couple of chances early, and I thought we were going to dominate the entire game,” said Simon. “We just couldn’t get the ball down and couldn’t get any-thing going, but we contained them defensively and kept it 0-0 at the end of the first half.”

“We had a plan in the first half to try and get the ball out of the midfield as quickly as possible,” said head coach Charlie Martel. “De Smet was very aggressive, and we didn’t have a whole lot of time on the ball. It was stagnant, and De Smet had control. We got outplayed at times in the first half, and pressure was the key element we had trouble deal-ing with.”

Five minutes into the half, it was Simon again with the ball on the left flank. After finding his way through the De Smet wingers, he sent in a cross. The ball grazed the tops of heads, but couldn’t find its way into the far post. SLUH missed the goal by inches, and

the score was still 0-0.“We just couldn’t get that

last pass through on goal,” said Simon.

Then, tragedy struck.De Smet was awarded a

free kick about 35 yards out from the SLUH goal. A De Smet player sent a near perfect ball into the box, and the ball was bouncing around the box. Unfortunately, the ball found De Smet’s Jack Klingler, and he hammered the ball into the top right corner of the net, giving De Smet a 1-0 lead.

“It went right to (Klin-gler), and he hit it in,” said Martel. “There’s luck involved, and that’s the nature of the game. You can dominate a half, and give up a goal in that half. Teams lose and they shouldn’t be losing, and that’s the way it goes.”

Right after the goal, SLUH had to try and get something going. Senior back Jack Dempster took a free kick from 35 yards out and curled the ball near the crossbar. However, Range brushed the ball over the net with his left hand, and the game was still 1-0 in De Smet’s favor.

With 1:15 remaining in the game, SLUH had another great chance from senior Sam Rudder, who fired a shot that Range, who was rushing off of his line, saved to keep the score at 1-0.

“There were times when we needed to front the keep-er and we didn’t,” said Mar-

tel. “He controlled the box, and did a really good job. He caught at least 30 balls.”

SLUH’s final chance came on a corner kick in the final minute. The ball flew in from the corner and found Dempster’s head, who direct-ed the shot on net. A De Smet defender was on the goal line, and effectively cleared the ball with a header.

The final whistle blew, and it was all over. Shots on goal were 13-2 in favor of SLUH, but they ended up on the losing end.

“It was the worst feel-

Soccer ends with second-best record in program’s history

ing ever when I watched the clock tick down to zero,” said Simon.

“The outcome is just the cruel reality of soccer,” said senior Matt Lesko. “That’s just how it goes.”

The Jr. Bills ended the season with a 25-3 record, the second best in the program’s 71-year history. Martel says this year’s team is one of the best he’s had in his tenure as SLUH’s head coach.

“Second in 71 years? I can roll with that,” said Mar-tel. “I’m really proud of the guys, and they handled a

For a swimmer to qual-ify for finals at state, he must place in the top 16 at prelims. Right now the Bills only have one top 16 time—Franz,who is seeded 14th in the breast-stroke. But the team is ready to drop significant time for Friday.

The biggest difference between this year’s team and last year’s is the lack of a star individual swimmer. Last year

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tough loss like gentlemen. It’s the best team, all around, that I’ve had: personality, brother-hood, hard work, determina-tion, character. It’s the best team I’ve had in 23 years.”

“This season has been the absolute best season of my soccer career,” said Simon. “The support we received this year was absolutely breathtak-ing. I wish the season would have ended with a state cham-pionship, but I’m proud of my teammates because I know that every single one of them left every ounce of energy on the field.”

photo | Brendan VoigtHead Coach Charlie Martel with the team after Tuesday’s loss.

BY Tim NileSPORTS EDITOR

A hat trick from senior captain Steve Lockwood

and the teamwork and resil-ience of the St. Louis U. High hockey team allowed for a 9-3 win over Westminster in the regular season opener.

All was quiet until late in the first period, when sopho-

more Joe Winkelmann found the back of the net for the Jr. Bills’ first goal of the regular season.

Following the goal, se-nior Joe Warnecke came up with two big saves, one of which came on a Westminster breakaway.

Lockwood made it 2-0 three minutes into the second

period with the Jr. Bills on the penalty kill.

But Westminster did not give up, scoring two unan-swered goals to tie the game. Lockwood’s goal was followed by a Westminster power play goal and then the game-tying goal by Westminster—a wake up call for the Jr. Bills.

“Joe Warnecke was get-

ting pretty mad at the defense and the coaches were yelling at us so you know we pulled it together,” said Lockwood. “We had some good guys on the bench keeping the positiv-ity going and we came togeth-er as one and kept it going.”

“We just took a few shifts off and they capitalized,” said Warnecke. “(Our defense) went back to normal. They re-alized that they can’t do what they were doing. They realized they needed to move the puck and stop being so selfish.”

Then the Jr. Bills scored four times in the next ten minutes. Goals from senior captain Patrick Pence, junior John Sieckhaus, and two goals from Lockwood, and junior Peter Hoffmeister put the Jr. Bills up 6-2 before the end of the second period.

Lockwood has now scored a hat trick in two straight season-opening games, both of which have been played at Hardee’s ice plex in Chesterfield.

Goals from Hoffmeister, Winkelmann, and senior Jo-nah Schwartz highlighted the third period and the Jr. Bills extended their lead and closed out the game, 9-3.

“Goals will come, that’s all I have to say,” said Lock-wood. “We just got to keep shooting and crashing the net. And when the rebounds are there, we just need to bury them.”

The Jr. Bills’ next game is tonight at 9:30 at Queeny Park against MCC rival Chami-nade.

Senior captains Con-nor FitzGerald, and Scotty Berger, Pence, and Lockwood, Schwartz, junior Chaz Pa-lumbo and Kurt Lindhorst, sophomores Jack Wachter and Winkelmann, and freshmen Justin Jacoby and Henry Wag-ner will all be absent for this game. All of these players, be-sides Pence who is sick, have club team commitments.

photo | Tim NileSenior captain Connor FitzGerald at Monday night’s game against Wesminster.

the Jr. Bills had two: graduate Colin Derdeyn and senior Jus-tin Andrews. Derdeyn placed third in the 50 and seventh in the 100 freestyle, while An-drews took second in both the 200 and 500 freestyle. Both also were a part of the 200 medley and 400 freestyle relay teams. They will be very hard to replace this year.

Despite their seemingly bad placement going into the meet, the Jr. Bills expect big

swims across the board to get into top 16 spots.

All three relay times ex-pect to drop time, especially the all-senior 200 free relay team, led by state qualifier Mi-chael Krause.

“After being in the relay last year, it is my job to lead our relay,” Krause said. “If we all swim our best time we will go really fast.”

Young talent will also be important in this meet. Fresh-

man Joe Feder and sopho-more Barclay Dale both have a chance at top 16 in the 100 backstroke, as does Mathias Hostetler in the 100 butterfly.

Overall, SLUH has their work cut out for them on both Friday and Saturday. They know what they can and need to accomplish and are hoping to accomplish their last goal of the year: to be the best team in St. Louis.

“We have a lot of events,

(continued from page 7) 11 races,” Ehret said. “It’s gonna be a fast meet and hard to crack into the top 16 (but) we wrote goals for the top 16 times. I think goals are very important in a big race. Rec Plex is a special place. The boys know I’m proud of them and I believe in them to swim their best times at state.”

After winning MCC title, swimming floats on to State

impressive.”Though the Jr. Bills ran

well, their times could have been much faster if it weren’t for a rainstorm that persisted over the course of the race, greatly affecting the condi-tions. Along with the course being littered with puddles of standing water, it was also a brisk 50 degrees.

“The rain made it very challenging,” said Hetlage. “It caused it to be more of a race between the runner and the course.”

With their second place finish, SLUH has qualified for the State tournament, along with 15 other teams through-out the state including fellow District 3 teams Rock Bridge, Webster Groves, and Timber-land.

Though Tuesday was the last day of hard workouts, runners are not backing down in their preparation for the state meet.

“We had a reduced mile-age aerobic run on Wednes-day and coach Porter even ran with us,” said Hetlage. “It was relaxed but still pretty taxing.”

The team will be racing the same seven Jr. Bills that ran at sectionals last week: se-niors Davidson, Billy Balossi, Joe Butler and Jake Lepak; juniors Laughlin and William Kelly; and freshman Patrick Hetlage.

“Our seven ran great at sectionals, so we’ll just see what we can do to make it work for one more week,” said Porter.

Nine other runners are also traveling to the meet. Three of those are set alter-nates, while the other six are underclassmen who, in the coaching staff ’s opinion, have a good shot at racing in the state meet next year.

“They get the experience of seeing how we approach championship racing and it helps them to think through it for next year,” said Porter. “They get to see how it works to stay in the hotel, eat din-ner with the team, sleep in a different bed—that kind of thing.”

SLUH has an impres-sive history at the state meet, including placing in the top five as a team for the past ten years in a row. While the team would love to come out in the top four for a trophy, they know they need to work hard and race well to achieve that goal.

“We’re going to focus on what we can control, which is how we race,” said Porter. “It comes down to who can be the toughest over the last mile, and we have some really tough guys. We need to put ourselves in positions to be successful.”

“We had a really good race all around at Section-als and I know if we get guys working together we could have another really good race at State,” said Laughlin.

The team is leaving for Jefferson City today after first period so they can get a chance to run the course be-fore the race tomorrow.

The state meet will be held in Jefferson City at Oak Hills golf course tomorrow at 1:10 p.m.

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XC to compete for State Saturday

Prep News8 FOUR

Friday, November 6AP Junior Class Mass Snack—Chicken RingsLunch Special—Toasted Ravioli Vegetarian—Mashed Potatoes3:00pm Swimming MSHSAA Championships @ Saint Peters Rec-Plex9:30pm V Hockey vs. Chaminade @ Queeny Park Ice Rink

Regular Schedule

Saturday, November 7Ignatian Family Teach-In (through November 9)1:00pm V Cross Country State Meet3:00pm Swimming MSHSAA Championships @ Saint Peters Rec-Plex10:00pm JV White Hockey vs. Parkway South @ Affton Ice Rink

Sunday, November 811:30am Open House5:00pm NIE Overnight @ MAC7:45pm JV Blue Hockey vs. Vianney @ Affton Ice Rink9:00pm JV White Hockey vs. Lindbergh @ Affton Ice RinkMonday, November 9Faculty DayV Hockey vs. Kirkwood @ Queeny Park Rink

No Classes

Tuesday, November 10AP Snack—Pizza SticksLunch Special—Pasta Bar Vegetarian—Black Bean Burger

Regular Schedule

Wednesday, November 11Canvas-LMS-VisitAP Snack—Biscotti SticksLunch Special—Brunch Vegetarian—Salmon6:00pm ACES Film Screening

Regular Schedule

Thursday, November 12AP Snack—Mini TacosLunch Special—Domino’s Pizza Vegetarian—Grilled Cheese

Regular Schedule

Friday, November 13AP Freshman Class Mass Snack—Mini Corn DogsLunch Special—Meatball Sandwich Vegetarian—Garden Burger

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Around the Hallways

Teach-In group goes to SLU for five hour meeting

Students and faculty attending the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice met this past Sunday at Saint Louis Univer-sity in order to learn about advocacy and to watch students from the university give presentations and practice advo-cating in preparation for the Teach-In, which kicks off on Saturday, Nov. 7 in Washington D.C. The group also met this past Monday and Wednesday dur-ing activity period to discuss the issues they are advocating for, criminal justice reform and environmental justice, and to begin doing research on those issues, which they will be presenting on Capitol Hill on Monday. Twenty-three students and five teachers will attend the Teach-In starting tomorrow, the largest delegation SLUH has ever sent. Senior Brendan Un-derwood will give a speech entitled “My Awakening to Racial Issues and Social Justice” Saturday night to the crowd of over 1,600.

Crimmins leads his first informational meeting for students, parents

Many juniors and their parents met in the Commons last night for a junior college kick-off, where Director of Col-lege Counseling Kevin Crimmins deliv-ered a presentation outlining the appli-cation process, financial aid plans, ways to research colleges, deadlines for ap-plication, and a brief to-do list for what students should be doing in the near fu-ture to help them on their college search. Students who attended also received two surveys and a college planning hand-book to kickstart their college search. This is the first such event Crimmins has led.

Gathering in Ignatian Conference Room

Department heads from the schools in the Central and Southern Jesuit Prov-ince have been meeting at SLU this week. Yesterday the group met in the Ignatian Conference room here, before continu-ing to Jesuit Hall at St. Louis Univer-sity. SLUH sent three faculty members to represent them, Science department chair Mary Russo, head librarian Cort-ney Schraut, and counselor Nina See. The group will continue to meet at Jesuit Hall.

Drive for Homeless totals announcedItems from the Drive for the Home-

less, which ended on Oct. 28, were deliv-ered to Xavier Winter Inn and St. Louis Winter Outreach Program last week. The drive also raised $3,500 by dona-tions, mainly at the Mother-Son Mass on Oct. 25. A formal count of the individual items was not taken.

New varsity lacrosse coach announced Replacing Mark Seyer, who led the

SLUH lacrosse team for six seasons, Tyler Gilbert was announced as the next coach this week in a statement on the school’s website. From Philadelphia, Penn., Gil-bert played high school lacrosse at Epis-copal High School, eventually becom-ing an All-American and a three-sport athlete by his graduation. He has won four league championships, coached 12 All-Americans, and is the only player in NCAA history to win a Division III and Division I national championship in two successive years—one with Washington College (1998) and the University of Virginia (1999). SLUH’s lacrosse team has won 63 games the past four seasons, reaching the MSLA semifinals in all four of those (and one runner-up finish).

Cross country team featured on local media

The SLUH cross country program was featured on Chris Hrabe’s High School Spotlight last week. Hrabe’s pro-gram is a part of his weekday radio show “Sports Open Line” on KMOX, which is most notable for its Cardinals and Blues pre-game and post-game shows. The four and a half minute spotlight was accompanied by a short article that can be found on the CBS St. Louis website. Senior Dustan Davidson represented the team by wearing a Go Pro to prac-tice, commenting on the team’s char-

acter and effort. Coach Tom Flanagan also made comments about how far the program has come since the early ‘90s when Linhares took over, and how that has transformed to a tradition of success. Coach Joe Porter spoke about the indi-vidualized attention to every member of the team, an aspect unique to SLUH cross country. “The 66th person on the team pushes the 65th, all the way up to our number one. Everyone is contribut-ing to the varsity level,” Porter said in an interview with Hrabe.

SSN sees viewership highs, clips fea-tured on KSDK

Over 300 people dialed up SLUH Sports Network’s (SSN’s) online broad-cast of the soccer game against De Smet Tuesday night, well above their previous record of around 200 for the Chami-nade vs. SLUH football game several weeks back, the network’s technology officer Tom Hillmeyer said. The feed has received over 1,300 views since. The broadcast featured Will Martel reading a note from head coach Charlie Martel and assistant coach Charlie Clark, a song by senior Anthony Delia, and an inter-view during halftime with a member of De Smet’s broadcasting network, DSPN. Seniors Sam Tettamble and Kevin Strad-er ended their run as soccer announcers. Their footage was aired on KSDK later that night. Since the network’s launch in August, they have built a strong follow-ing on Twitter as well as traffic to their website and archived games. The net-work is planning on hockey and basket-ball broadcasts.

—Sam Chechik, Leo Heinz, Andrew Mod-der, Andrew Pluff, Ethan McIntyre.

Varsity Water Polo Captains

Chris KreienkampDan Walsh

This cartoon does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Prep News.

cartoon | Paul Anthony

On Sunday, November 22, SLUH’s Mother Club will host the SLUHtique

from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30pm. Special SLUH-specific items, such as sock, jewelry, etc.

will be available.

calendar | Sam Chechik and Liam Connolly

November 6, 2015